Description: With typically understated lyricism, Langewiesche explores the ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons.
Brief description: William Langewiesche is the author of four previous books, including the National Book Critic's Circle Award finalist American Ground. He is currently the international correspondent for Vanity Fair.
Review Quotes:
"Astonishing . . . Langeweische's narrative achieves an almost operatic grandeur . . . As [he] demonstrates time and time again in this brave, often electrifying book, [the sea] is a world that is both new and very old, and we ignore it at our own peril." --Nathaniel Philbrick, The New York Times Book Review
"The Outlaw Sea is impossible to put down." --People